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Florentine Films has made some of the most watched documentaries on PBS. It was founded in 1976 by Ken Burns, Roger Sherman, Buddy Squires and Larry Hott.
Florentine Films. In 1976, Burns, Elaine Mayes, and college classmate Roger Sherman founded a production company called Florentine Films in Walpole, New Hampshire. The company's name was borrowed from Mayes's hometown of Florence, Massachusetts. Another Hampshire College student, Buddy Squires, was invited to succeed Mayes as a founding member ...
Explore the rich and diverse filmography of Florentine Films, from historical documentaries to biographies, from music to nature, from fulllistofhisfilmsishere.
Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made.
Learn about Ken Burns, his library of award-winning documentaries and the team at Florentine Films.
For more than four decades, Ken Burns and his colleagues at Florentine Films have produced some of the most critically acclaimed and most-watched documentaries on public television.
